Prompt military success or failure, not a Congressional declaration or lack thereof, will determine the decisive level of popular support.

The Siletz spent two decades trying to get a Congressional declaration restoring the tribe.

To decide for war without a Congressional declaration would be constitutional and political folly on a disastrous scale.

Even prolonged conflicts like the Korean War and Vietnam were waged with no formal Congressional declaration.

Several threatening events finally culminated in a Congressional declaration of war on April 6, 1917.

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Congressional declaration of purpose and policy (a) Purpose.

Now President Bush, with no such Congressional declaration, is using that Roosevelt mistake as precedent for his own dismaying departure from due process.

Support for a Congressional declaration of independence was consolidated in the final weeks of June 1776.

Some Congress members, anxious to clip the President's foreign policy wings, believe the United States cannot fight without a formal Congressional declaration of war.